{{Short description|German philologist (1844–1895)}} {{Infobox academic | name = Julius Zupitza | image = Julius Zupitza.JPG | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1844|01|04|df=yes}} | birth_place = Kerpen, Upper Silesia | death_date = {{death date and age|1895|07|06|1844|01|04|df=yes}} | death_place = Berlin, Germany | death_cause = | nationality = | home_town = | spouse = | partner = | awards = <!--notable national-level awards only--> | alma_mater = <!--will often consist of the linked name of the last-attended higher education institution--> | thesis_title = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | era = | discipline = Philology | sub_discipline = English philology | workplaces = {{ubl | University of Vienna | {{nowrap|Friedrich Wilhelm University}}}} | doctoral_students = Arthur Napier | notable_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Julius Zupitza''' (4 January 1844 in Kerpen, Upper Silesia – 6 July 1895 in Berlin) was a German philologist and one of the founders of English philology in Germany.<ref>Edward Schröder (1900). "[https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz86823.html#adbcontent Zupitza, Julius]". In ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB). '''45.''' Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.</ref>
==Biography== Zupitza was the son of Major Andreas Zupitza and his wife, Adelheid, née Albrecht. He received his Gymnasium education in Oppeln.
==Academic career== Zupitza studied classical, Germanic, and Romance philology and Sanskrit at the University of Breslau and the University of Berlin, working with Friedrich Pfeiffer, Ottomar Behnsch, Heinrich Rückert, Karl Müllenhoff, August Boeckh, and Moritz Haupt. He received his doctoral degree in 1865 in Berlin and his postdoctoral degree (habilitation) in 1869 in Breslau. After a short appointment at the University of Vienna in the area of Northern Germanic languages, he was appointed first professor and chair of English philology at the prestigious University of Berlin. He remained in this position until he died of a stroke in 1895.<ref>Arthur S. Napier, "In Memoriam Julius Zupitza," ''The Academy'' 1211 (20 July 1895), p. 51; Gustav Tanger, "Julius Zupitza," ''Jahrbuch der deutschen Shakespeare Gesellschaft'' 32 (1896), 296-301.</ref> In 1893, he received an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge.
==Selected publications== * ''Einführung in das Studium des mittelhochdeutschen. Zum Selbstunterricht für jeden gebildeten'' (Oppeln, 1868) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=kPxIAAAAcAAJ GB]) * ''Zur Literaturgeschichte des Guy von Warwick'' (Wien, 1873) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=tmk7AAAAYAAJ GB]) * Ed., ''The Romance of Guy of Warwick. The second or 15th-century Version'' (1875–1876) * Ed., ''General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales'' (1882). * Ed., ''Beowulf. Autotypes of the unique Cotton MS. Vitellius A XV in the British Museum'' (London: Trübner, 1882). * Ed., ''Cynewulfs Elene mit einem Glossar'' (1877).<ref>Cynewulf., Zupitza, J. (1888). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006609705/Home Cynewulfs Elene: mit einem Glossar]. 3. Aufl. Berlin: Weidmann.</ref> * Ed., ''Ælfrics Grammatik und Glossar'' (1880). * Ed., ''Guy of Warwick'' (1883).<ref name=":92">Zupitza, J. (188318871891). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011665170/Home The romance of Guy of Warwick]. [The first or 14th-century version.]. London: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., limited.</ref> * Ed., ''The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale'' (1890).
==See also== * Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft * Johannes Hoops * Hugo Gering
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==Further reading== *Arnold Schröer: Aus der Frühzeit der englischen Philologie. I. Persönliche Erinnerungen und Eindrücke, in: ''Germanisch Romanische Monatsschrift'' 15 (1925), S. 32–51. *Richard Utz: ''Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology. A History of Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1793-1948''. Brepols, Turnhout 2002, especially pp. 73–126: "The Founding Fathers: Julius Zupitza and Bernhard ten Brink."
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